South Coatesville residents now have answers regarding a noxious smell coming from the Pennsylvania American Waterâs wastewater treatment plant on Gibbons Avenue.
Borough officials explained how they are dealing with the nuisance odor during the April 13 meeting held on Zoom.
âThere are so many demands for us to fix the problem,â Borough Manager Allen Smith said.
Council member Renee Carey read a March 9 letter from Pennsylvania American Water on their recent efforts to combat the redolence. She read site contractors are installing covers on existing digesters along with adding another digester. In the beginning of May, the company will spray an odor controlling chemical, consisting of a lemon scent.
Harbor Decision Protects the Public Apr 18, 2021 | Reprints | Print
The Superior Court decision on the Downtown Municipal Harbor Plan, or MHP is a victory for protecting open access to Boston’s beautiful waterfront. It’s also an opportunity to reimagine what waterfront development should look like. What it is not is a decision about any one individual project.
Let’s be clear: The decision upholds Massachusetts law that protects the waterfront from becoming privatized through a deeply flawed process. The approval of the Downtown MHP by the former state secretary of energy and environmental affairs was the culmination of a process that was supposed to take into account the needs of the public but instead prioritized the concerns of the politically connected. The court ruled correctly that the Department of Environmental Protection, as the trustee of the public waterfront, has the exclusive authority on behalf of the state to approve or rej
Spending on climate resiliency is needed
South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Board
The seas are inexorably rising, and the Florida Legislature is tackling this by creating a Resilient Florida Grant Program in the Department of Environmental Protection. The bill creating the program, Senate Bill 1954, passed unanimously in both the House and the Senate. Gov. Ron DeSantis should sign it.
At stake are millions of dollars for sea walls, storm hardening and other infrastructure projects that will better prepare us to tackle a future in which we endure increased flooding, stronger storms and higher seas.
The program handles resiliency infrastructure in a traditional Republican manner by doling out block grants to cities and counties, subject to state appropriations. Democrats won’t like how the Legislature has chosen to fund these grants by making permanent its annual tradition of raiding the Affordable Housing Trust Fund, sending much of the money set aside for housing to i
State bans biomass power plants near âenvironmental justiceâ communities from qualifying for state incentives
By David Abel Globe Staff,Updated April 16, 2021, 5:18 p.m.
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After years of protests against plans to build a wood-burning power plant in Springfield, state officials Friday issued new rules that would prohibit biomass facilities from qualifying for valuable financial incentives if theyâre built within 5 miles of a low-income area known as an environmental justice community.
State officials also announced that all new biomass plants would have to become more efficient to qualify for those incentives, known as renewable energy credits.
The move â a reversal from draft rules released late last year â likely ends a decade-long effort to build the biomass plant in Springfield, an environmental justice community known as the nationâs asthma capital.
Environmental justice is coming to New Jersey’s suburbs | Opinion
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We like to think of our town as a model American community with tree-lined neighborhoods, good schools and local parks. But increasingly, these assets compete with a harsh reality: Piscataway has become a hot spot for warehouse sprawl along the I-287 corridor.
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By Laura Leibowitz, Atif Nazir and Leonard Hampton
Last year, we celebrated a hard-won victory when Gov. Phil Murphy signed the state’s landmark Environmental Justice law. Urban communities of color have long borne the burden of environmental racism, suffering disproportionate exposures to toxic hazards, air pollution, unsafe water and multiple health stressors. Importantly, the new law also recognizes that overburdened communities can exist anywhere that people of color, low-income and new immigrant populations are concentrated.